Tax ID no. 13-3366846 | Board Chair Scott Bruckner | |
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Founded April 17, 1986 (30 years ago) (1986-04-17) Founders Ganga Stone and Jane Best Legal status 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Headquarters 166 Sixth Avenue at Spring Street
SoHo, Manhattan
New York City | ||
God's Love We Deliver is an American non-profit organization which cooks and home-delivers nutritious, individually tailored meals to people in the New York City metropolitan area living with severe illness. The organization is headquartered in the SoHo neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York.
Co-founded in 1986 by Ganga Stone and Jane Best, it began with meals (delivered by bicycle) which were donated by about fifty restaurants.
As of 2011, the organization brought over 4,000 meals a day to people living with severe illness.
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In 2009, comedian Joan Rivers chose the organization as her charity to play for when she was a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice, a reality competition television series. Rivers won the competition and earned $250,000 for God's Love We Deliver.
In 2013, God's Love We Deliver temporarily relocated its main offices from SoHo in Lower Manhattan to the New York City borough of Brooklyn while a new six-story headquarters building, named for patron Michael Kors and designed by Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel Architects, was being finished. The new structure would replace the old one which was named for another of the organization's largest patrons, David Geffen, and in which it had been located since 1995.
After 22 months in its temporary Brooklyn location, God's Love We Deliver completed its move to its new home in The Michael Kors Building in SoHo. The brand new, state-of-the-art, 9,600-square-foot (890-square-metre) kitchen on the second floor has natural light, and includes four industrial-size refrigerators, three freezers, five blast freezers, five 80-gallon soup kettles, and a waste digester that converts up to 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms) of organic food waste into disposable water.
On March 9, 2017, held its first-ever benefit concert at the Beacon Theater in New York City. The entertainers included Jackson Browne, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Mavis Staples, Cyndi Lauper, Joe Walsh, Michael McDonald and Dr. John.